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As long as these types pay attention to what the scientists tell them and explain it to others accurately, they’re helpful

Some people only browse global feeds and downvote stuff as if they’re trying to train the Netflix recommendation algorithm, completely ignoring the rules of the community it originates from

Hashing alone if it’s just usernames isn’t enough. Need something like keyed hashes, but then malicious servers can lie about numbers of votes.

Otherwise you need something ridiculously overengineered like public but encrypted logs of user actions and Zero-knowledge proofs of correctness mapping everything to a distinct existing user without revealing who it is.

As I mentioned in another post: for consistency is better to have each server count total votes from their own users, send a signed & timestamped message with the count to the host of the post being voted on. Then the host can display a consistent vote count to everybody that shows where votes are coming from without manipulation of external votes.

Each individual server can lie about its count, but not by too much or else it will be detected and the server can get defederated (or have its votes ignored).

Especially in federated networks where the data isn’t under access control, doubly so if the privacy extension is optional

Varies between games, it’s common there’s features missing so it’s not equivalent but often Linux has remained faster when equivalent because its implementation is more efficient. Unless you’re dealing with ray tracing and other recent fancy stuff.

The postage stamp asked strangers to lick its behind!

Did it stop coolant leak though?

On the other hand, Trump’s FAA has made airplanes do impromptu land acknowledgements

Did you?

Every time Republicans got elected they did terrible things. Every time the warning was correct

In the story people are warned when nothing bad was coming, but Republicans have been led by evil people since at least Reagan

Republicans are the ones who was really calling wolf with all their fake panics, but nobody ever calls them out for it

But they don’t even need lies to make Republicans look bad. They just need to push harder

And now the wolf came.

The danger was real, unlike the dangers Republicans scream about. Why didn’t anybody tell THEM they’re crying wolf?

So basically engineers managed to even take solar power where we have steam-free power generation and insert steam into it anyway

Engineers loves taking every imaginable form of energy source and turn it into a way to drive a steam engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power

Told you that you should’ve asked someone to explain

So you’re admitting you didn’t read any of my comments, and that you don’t understand that only very narrow types of lies are criminalized while the vast majority are not

Hint: read my first comment again

And then again

And then again, and notice the parentheses this time. Then ask somebody to explain it to you.

Nanoraptor’s photoshop

Edit: who the @@@ follows me around downvoting me, especially when it’s simply correct answers

Removing sanctions, allowing the biggest bombs to be sent to Israel again, starting deportations of pro-palestine protestors

You have to be lying or must be blind if you don’t think that’s worse

But lack of turnout did

Tell me where scientists are prosecuted for having got a theory wrong

Tell me where meteorologists routinely are prosecuted

I already mentioned the obvious exceptions (lying to cause certain types of harm) but few western countries allow penalties for anything outside those exceptions

Tell me where fiction is illegal to publish

In legal terms it is (with the obvious exceptions for impersonation, defamation, etc)

But in private forums? Mods can be however strict they want